How Engineers Rescued Healthcare.gov

dotconferences · Talk · 27 min · 2014 · YouTube title: dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

Why it's here

HN recommends it as an entertaining first-hand engineer account of what went wrong with healthcare.gov and how it was fixed, including that no one owned the whole site.

What it covers

A dotScale 2014 talk by Robert Kennedy, a former healthcare.gov SRE who later worked at Google, about the engineering effort to rescue the troubled site. It explains the technical and organizational problems behind the failed launch.